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NNOTB #270
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The white outline holds a face-like form together while everything inside it pulls apart — red bar, yellow circle, blue diagonal, and packed black marks all compete for the same space. Two tooth-lined shapes appear within the form, reading as noise rather than speech. Flat purple fills the ground with a stillness that makes the interior density feel louder by contrast.
Between NNOTB #269 and NNOTB #271 in the owned title sequence.
Work 17 of 23 in The Shape of a Mouth.
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- Artist
- nnxyz
- Recorded ink creation
- 2022-09-04T04:21:10-05:00
- Medium
- Digital brush drawing (Nifty Ink)
- Recorded strokes
- 148
- Explicit background/reference passes
- 2
- Sampled points
- 37335
- Logical canvas
- 742.05 × 742.05
- Archived PNG pixels
- 742 × 742
- Owned editions in imported archive
- 1
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Related works
NNOTB #269
Both works use a white outline to contain a face-like form packed with competing marks, but #269 builds outward with radiating yellow oval shapes on a dark ground while #270 opens against bare purple.
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NNOTB #271
#271 shares a large circular eye shape and tooth-lined mouth with #270, but replaces the flat purple ground with warm brown and spreads loose spiral lines across the lower half rather than concentrating marks inside the central form.
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